Nathalie Du Pasquier: Saint Fairy Anne

12 Apr-17 May 2025

Overview

Presenting mostly oil paintings on canvas, Saint Fairy Anne continues the celebrated French artist’s exploration of colour, form, and the psychic life of objects. Bold, simplified shapes and linear motifs are ushered into dynamic compositional arrangements. Though often using graphic forms, the works maintain a distinctly analogue feel – the artist’s hand leaving a painterly finish and off-kilter verve. Mostly presenting work from the past five years, the exhibition also includes a 1998 still life, depicting a shell, a rock and a pair of pliers. The artist often uses her archive as raw material to be folded into her work, creating visual links and echoes across multiple decades, folding the past into the present to render them anew. 

The exhibition’s title, Saint Fairy Anne, offers a play on words: a phonetic Anglicisation of “ça ne fait rien”, or “it’s not important”. Along with the artist’s irreverent ink drawing on which it appears, it offers an injection of humour, playfulness and experimentation in art-making.